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Galaga Galaxian posted:Does this mean Wal-Mart will one day replace its "As Seen on TV" section with a kickstarter one? MoMA already has done this.
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Kickarter.
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Foxhound posted:So how did they get Nintendo to okay the complete theft of the NES controller for th The NES controller design has been OK to copy legally for a while now, just so long as you don't put the Nintendo logo on it.Patents expired and the other stuff isn't covered by other forms of IP protection anymore either.
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Oh, I've taken part in this sugar skull kickstarter  Don't tell me that somebody bought a lot of MoMA's stock and resold it (tbf I've gotten a spoon, a mug and skull cutout thingie for 15$)
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mobby_6kl posted:What do you mean specifically? There's a lot of Surely you can never cut out 100% of sound with an in-ear object anyway, isn't a certain amount of vibration transmitted through the skull and jaw if it's loud enough?
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on that page but not much specific, from what I've seen. Regular plugs and monitors are designed specifically to transmit the various frequencies appropriately which I doubt a chunk of titanium can replicate.
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ponzicar posted:Someone should just buy up lovely old infomercial gadgets and throw them up on kickstarter as new inventions. I saw one of these at a thrift shop the other day and thought about this thread. It's a gag item!
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mobby_6kl posted:What do you mean specifically? There's a lot of I dunno what they're called exactly, but you can change the filters of them and they're custom molded to fit your ears.
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Paladinus posted:Why is Guru Larry is in their pitch video? Is this an ironic kickstarter like the Action 52 one? Super Noah's Ark 3D was released on the SNES in 1994 (unsanctioned by Nintendo) the Steam version is a port, dude. Wisdom Tree is an ancient company that made tons of lovely Christian games for NES and SNES. I can't believe they're still around. Somebody just probably bought the rights and is trying to squeeze money from them. If Nintendo cared enough they could totally sue them for copying the NES controller design though, that's way too similar to be legal. fishmech posted:The NES controller design has been OK to copy legally for a while now, just so long as you don't put the Nintendo logo on it.Patents expired and the other stuff isn't covered by other forms of IP protection anymore either. Hm, I would think the color and art layout of the controller would still have copyright, but IANAL. Nintendo doesn't really care though. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 17:21 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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Zaphod42 posted:I can't believe they're still around. Somebody just probably bought the rights and is trying to squeeze money from them. Uh why's that so hard to believe? They've been constantly re-releasing the same dozen or so Color Dreams and Wisdom Tree proper games for years, they're not being squeezed or anything. For instance back in 2010 they had their NES games on their website in a Java-based NES emulator. And as early as 2005 they had licensed the rights to some other company to sell 7 of their Wisdom Tree NES games on one of those plug-and-play systems that had an NES-on-a-chip.
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The joined forces with Piko Interactive, company that is manufacturing new NES/SNES/MD carts, with both homebrew games and previously unreleased ones. They (Piko_ even got their hands on Tyrannosaurus Tex, the first-person shooter slated for release on GameBoy Color, and are going to clean the code and finish the game. Hopefully this will end better than their Steam releases of obscure SNES games. e: clarification laserghost has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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fishmech posted:Uh why's that so hard to believe? They've been constantly re-releasing the same dozen or so Color Dreams and Wisdom Tree proper games for years, they're not being squeezed or anything. I dunno, that just seems insane to me. Like, how did they keep selling Noah's Ark 3D in the PS1 / PS2 / PS3 era? Did they make some proper full-3D Christian games I've never heard about too? Or just Java emulators?  licencing the rights to their games is all I expected them to be capable of.
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It's the only unlicensed SNES cart, so it's a collector's item. Same for all of their releases. They should go and look into their archives to check if they have anything from the time they were developing a Hellraiser FPS game on the NES.
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Zaphod42 posted:I dunno, that just seems insane to me. Like, how did they keep selling Noah's Ark 3D in the PS1 / PS2 / PS3 era? Dude, never underestimate the kind of things people who buy "christian rock" and so on are willing to put up with as long as your product says JESUS and BIBLE a couple times. Here's a good overview of what they were offering before they recently redesigned their site, I think some of these were made by other Christian software companies and just published by them, because Wisdom Tree already had ins with various nationwide Christian stores: https://web.archive.org/web/20120323140727/http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/games.html
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Zaphod42 posted:Super Noah's Ark 3D was released on the SNES in 1994 (unsanctioned by Nintendo)
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kensei posted:I saw one of these at a thrift shop the other day and thought about this thread. It's a gag item! Missing the best parts:    
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fishmech posted:Dude, never underestimate the kind of things people who buy "christian rock" and so on are willing to put up with as long as your product says JESUS and BIBLE a couple times. Oh shiiiiiit, they made a Myst clone too https://web.archive.org/web/20111110233121/http://www.wisdomtreegames.com/games/derek/ this is priceless
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I think it's more like Wisdom Tree caught on that they had a huge irony audience and decided to capitalize on it as much as they could.
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Platystemon posted:Missing the best parts: Holy poo poo those caricatures. This owns.
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Zaphod42 posted:I dunno, that just seems insane to me. Like, how did they keep selling Noah's Ark 3D in the PS1 / PS2 / PS3 era? Um I grew up extremely hosed in the head religious and some one I knew had this game I'm pretty sure it's like doom only you feed animals on the ark hope this helps memory is foggy
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Biblical video games would be cool if they were actually true to the source material and not just about proselytizing and being family friendly. As is the only people who make anything remotely close are the Japanese perverts who make all freaky angel monsters Bayonetta kills.
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Quest type: Gather Quest reward: wife (1) Quest object: Philistine foreskins (100) Note that this quest is made somewhat easier by the 100% drop rate from this mob.
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Guy Mann posted:Biblical video games would be cool if they were actually true to the source material and not just about proselytizing and being family friendly. As is the only people who make anything remotely close are the Japanese perverts who make all freaky angel monsters Bayonetta kills. There's also El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, which takes the Bible and makes it anime.
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Guy Mann posted:Biblical video games would be cool if they were actually true to the source material and not just about proselytizing and being family friendly. As is the only people who make anything remotely close are the Japanese perverts who make all freaky angel monsters Bayonetta kills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Binding_of_Isaac_(video_game)
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Guy Mann posted:Biblical video games would be cool if they were actually true to the source material and not just about proselytizing and being family friendly. As is the only people who make anything remotely close are the Japanese perverts who make all freaky angel monsters Bayonetta kills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Megami_Tensei
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Somehow this "fund my airfare to Japan" campaign is both even cringier than I expected and not as bad as it could be. At least the video isn't being narrated in a bad falsetto.
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Platystemon posted:Missing the best parts: Utterly fantastic. Thank you.
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quote:What happens when the soul of a witch's virgin sacrifice from 17th century Salem, MA, gets infused into a life-sized, ball-jointed, 3D printed, sex bot in present time? Get set for this quirky adventure full of M.I.T. nerds, Necronomicons, sadistic witches, cute sidekick ghosts, and one bad-rear end witch hunting, Gothic Lolita. 
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Erath posted:Um I grew up extremely hosed in the head religious and some one I knew had this game I'm pretty sure it's like doom only you feed animals on the ark hope this helps memory is foggy Some goons did a LP on it a little while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MhGLr2I6xw
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cyberia posted:An awful horrible thing. God dammit now I'm overthinking this. How do you even infuse a soul into something else? Why wait hundreds of years before going into something? Why does the sex toy have a gun in its arm? What makes the ball joints creepier than the other stuff like the ultra short dress stuff?
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RandomPauI posted:God dammit now I'm overthinking this. How do you even infuse a soul into something else? Why wait hundreds of years before going into something? Why does the sex toy have a gun in its arm? What makes the ball joints creepier than the other stuff like the ultra short dress stuff? idk man, the clearly stated "dress ends near crotch line" strikes me as Pretty drat Creepy.
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neongrey posted:idk man, the clearly stated "dress ends near crotch line" strikes me as Pretty drat Creepy. I was creeped out at the "3D printed sex doll" mark
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The Super Noah Ark 3D Whatever Who Gives A poo poo is on Steam because there's a dude doing a modern Wolfenstein 3D engine called ECWolf and if you make Wolf3D work, you get the Noah game for free as it's a very simple port. He reached an arrangement to sell it on Steam and split the profits with Wisdom Tree, with his half going to paying for future development of ECWolf to support other Wolf3D-engine games in the future. It's basically an on-the-nose fundraiser / donation system hosted on Steam.
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Yond Cassius posted:Somehow this "fund my airfare to Japan" campaign is both even cringier than I expected and not as bad as it could be. At least the video isn't being narrated in a bad falsetto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkjyTknqGA e: what I learned from this vid: japanese people love beef jerky and watermelons Scrotum Modem has a new favorite as of 17:38 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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